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Promoting overseas trade and the founding of a navy, Richelieu also launched France on the road to empire with the colonization of Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Caribbean.
Two rather half-hearted Spanish attempts to establish footholds on Guadeloupe were repulsed by the Caribs.
After Britain seized Guadeloupe, Victor Hugues, commissaire of the Convention, wrenched the island back, proclaimed slavery abolished, and set about guillotining the old-guard colons.
Opting, as a dubious second best, for eight years of British occupation in 1794, the island managed to retain slavery and avoid the revolutionary terror that Guadeloupe underwent.
Some years later, French colonizers moved south to both Guadeloupe and Martinique.